To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Quote by Bertrand Russell
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes
- Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
- Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
- To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
- Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
- The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
- Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
- Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
- The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
- Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Best Quotes
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- A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
- In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.
- Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
- I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
- We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
- I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
- I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I'm doing what I do best.
- We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
- Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.